Jack is holding a package of "cyanide", actually the name of a piece of soap from Villainess, a compagny who sells soaps and beautyproducts with
quirky names ( like "blood", cyanide,...) but they work perfect and do smell so good !

More handmade stuff are the wooden blocks with letters that form " EEK", " BOO" and "HALLOWEEN".

Easy to make and fun to display.

The fabric garland behind the pumpkinlights were gifts in a Halloweenexchange I did a few years ago.

The book is made from the "dark and dreary" postcardswap we did on ATT some years ago. Handmade :)

On my mantle on the other side of the room I made a second display.

Almost all handmade stuff, made by me or others...in different creative exchanges.

The lady is one of our "freaky ancestors"... she COULD be an ancestor. Whom else do we inherite our quirky minds from ?

It's a painting from my daughter that will find a place in her future home, but now is a decoration in my house throughout the year..

A lovely exchange I would love to do again is the "halloween inchie"swap. They are so fun to make, not much work, but little pieces of "art".

I glued them together in an old photobook.

Another handmade halloweentag and a 3D fat halloween ATC we did on our European All Things Tim group a while ago.

More handmade tags I cherish are the tags I got from Michelle Ward with the stamps of stampotique and some of her own.

The same for the 1 to 1 exchange I did a few years ago with Stephen Jew. When I saw the halloweentags he made on his blog, I asked if we could do an exchange... And he agreed from the first
moment on :)

I should do exchanges and challenges more... most are from a few years ago... but the older I get, the more time seems to get shorter and flies by faster and faster...

You already saw some of my daughters paintings...

Here she is on the left... and on the right how she will look when she decides to do too much botox and facelifts in the future ...

Sorry...just a little joke.. it's a facepainting she did this week. She followed a course visagie for a whole week with an international teacher. They mostly learned to do beautymake up with
airbrush and liquid make up, but you know how my daughter is... she also had to try something different :)

Gaia even gave her brother a beautymake-over..

Damn, I think I have such ugly kids...

Gaia might be so damn ugly as the Joker, but I think she's a beautiful demon...

Half october we had FACTS here in Belgium, our local "Comicon" event.

She and her boyfriend Sam have been creating for months for this event and this is how they looked like :he as a hero, she as a demon...

She made several props : her demonfeet, the skullstaff, armour,...

They went to Facts with friends and even Hermione and Harry are their best friends !

Yesterdayevening, just before the course ended, the international teacher said Gaia she wanted to ask her something. She had seen Gaia drawing in between...

"Oh my god, she surely will ask me if I'm mental..." Gaia thought :)

But no... the lady asked Gaia if she would make her a painting for her apartment ! Gaia sure was flattered !

And so what... if people think she or we as a family are "not completly normal", I just will recite this: